Functions: Provided employment and vocational training for
unemployed youths and, to a lesser extent, for war veterans and
Indians, through conservation and natural resources development
work, and beginning in May 1940, defense work on military
reservations and forest protection.

Abolished: By Labor-Federal Security Appropriation Act (56 Stat.
569), July 2, 1942, providing for liquidation by June 30, 1943.
Liquidation appropriations continued through June 30, 1948.

Related Records: Record copies of publications of the Civilian
Conservation Corps in RG 287, Publications of the U.S.
Government.
CCC enrollee personnel and payroll records in National Personnel
Records Center, St. Louis, MO.
Records of the Office of Education, RG 12.
Records of the Veterans Administration, RG 15.
Records of the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture, RG 16.
Records of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, RG 22.
Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior, RG 48.
Records of the Government of the Virgin Islands, RG 55.
Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, RG 75.
Records of the National Park Service, RG 79.
Records of the Forest Service, RG 95.
Records of the Soil Conservation Service, RG 114.
Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1917- , RG 407.

35.2 GENERAL RECORDS OF THE EMERGENCY CONSERVATION WORK AND
CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS
1933-42
590 lin. ft. and 193 rolls of microfilm

History: Emergency Conservation Work established as an
independent agency by EO 6101, April 5, 1933, under authority of
an emergency employment act of March 3l, 1933 (48 Stat. 22) to
relieve unemployment and to restore the country's natural
resources through public works. Superseded by CCC, 1937. SEE
35.1.

Textual Records: General correspondence, 1933-42 (427 ft.), with
index, 1933-40 (127 ft.). Reference file, 1933-42. Records
relating to the organization and operations of the CCC, with
emphasis on the role of the Forest Service in CCC activities,
1933-42. Correspondence of the Director, 1933-39. Minutes of the
Advisory Council to the Director, 1933-42. Procedural manuals,
1933-42. Microfilm copy of work progress reports, 1933-42 (193
rolls). Army corps area camp status reports, 1941-42. Camp
directories, 1933-42. Organization charts, 1941-42. Happy Days,
the CCC weekly newspaper, 1933-40. Records relating to proposed
merger of the National Youth Administration and the CCC, 1939-42.
Correspondence and resolutions relating to memorials for Robert
Fechner, first CCC Director, 1940-41.

Textual Records: General correspondence, 1940-53. Correspondence
relating to the disposal of buildings and property, 1935-48.
Records relating to the transfer of CCC camps to states and
federal agencies, 1942-47. Records used in facilitating the
liquidation process, 1933-53.

SEE Photographs UNDER 35.3.2.
SEE Composite Photographic Prints UNDER 35.3.2.
SEE Aerial Oblique Photographs UNDER 35.3.2.
SEE Panoramic Prints UNDER 35.3.2.
SEE Photographic Negatives UNDER 35.3.2.
SEE Color Slides UNDER 35.3.2.
SEE Lantern Slides UNDER 35.3.2.

Bibliographic note: Web version based on Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States. Compiled by Robert B. Matchette et al. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 1995.
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